Terry’s Worklog

  • Openning the floodgates

    It was only a matter of time…My 16 month old, Nathan, has taken his time hitting a number of milestones, partly because we have let him. Well, since November I guess, my wife and I have pretty much been insisting that he start to try and talk to us — either using hand signs or…

  • Going to Midwinter….

    What a drive into the Portland Airport this morning.  Geez, this morning we got something like an 1/4 inch of rain so the highways heading out of Independence was flooded all the way to I-5 (not unpassible, but lots of high water).  Then, I get to Portland and because of 2 accidents, am only able…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 minor update

    I posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.0 last night relating to how the application handles invalid MARC records. Generally, most MARC tools just spit the records out or stop processing at the offending record. Well, in MarcEdit 4.6 there was a MARC “healer” function that would essentially attempt to evaluate how the record was…

  • Gary Smith (of OCLC’s) response to MARBI Proposal 2006-04, Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8

    I was glad to see Gary Smith from OCLC finally post OCLC’s official response regarding the current MARBI proposal regarding the techniques for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8.  For those that haven’t see the proposal, the general gist of the document is that the current recommendation is to have non-transformable characters dropped, replaced by a fill character.  Personally,…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    I fixed two issues this morning: When using the Extracted Selected Records or Delete Selected records utility — if the display field criteria appears in the record multiple times (i.e., multiple 090 fields), then the field count is skewed and the export will grab the wrong records.  This has been corrected. When openning a large…

  • Some people….

    I was riding my bike home this evening and I’m not quite sure what gets into some people.  When I first started riding between Independence and Corvallis 3 years ago, I use to get a lot of kids in their big truck honking or yelling at me on my ride — particularly in the winter…

  • ETDs and automatic MARC generation

    Since Sept., OSU has started accepting ETDs in electronic format.  The materials are stored in Dspace — and this has been a bit of a boon for us.  I’ve spent a little time this week putting together an xslt stylesheet that can be used, in conjunction with MarcEdit 5.0’s Metadata harvester, to harvest the metadata…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Refresh (Jan. 13, 2006)

    How exciting…I hope folks don’t mind the regularity of the updates recently but I’ve been having a great deal of fun lately scrubbing the code and putting the final touches on the application.  Its made for some longer nights this week but I definitely think that its been worth it.I’ll update this message tomorrow morning and can get the formal…

  • Rivers still rising

    So I’ve taken to keeping an eye on the Luckiamute River near Suver, OR (http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pqr&gage=suvo3&view=1,1,1,1,1,1).  Hwy 99 crosses this river in a low spot and I’ve been watching this river go up and up and up.  Fortunately, I don’t think I’m going to see this cover the road.  It might flood just about everything else…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Alrighty, I’ve posted the update that corrected the two earlier noted bugs.  The first correction had to do with translating UTF-8 encoded MARC records into MARCXML and then back into MARC-8 — this was an easy fix and should be completed.  I’ve verified it against the 102 test records that had been set for review. …

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